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The BIRD project aims to develop a fully functional dynamic IP routing daemon.
https://bird.network.cz
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The babel protocol normally sends all its messages as multicast packets, but the protocol specification allows most messages to be sent as either unicast or multicast, and the two can be mixed freely. In particular, the babeld implementation can be configured to unicast updates to all peers instead of sending them as unicast. Daniel discovered that this can cause problems with the packet counter checks in the MAC extension due to packet reordering. This happens on WiFi networks where clients have power save enabled (which is quite common in infrastructure networks): in this case, the access point will buffer all multicast traffic and only send it out along with its beacons, leading to a maximum buffering in default Linux-based access point configuration of up to 200 ms. This means that a Babel sender that mixes unicast and multicast messages can have the unicast messages overtake the multicast messages because of this buffering; when authentication is enabled, this causes the receiver to discard the multicast message when it does arrive because it now has a packet counter value less than the unicast message that arrived before it. Daniel observed that this happens frequently enough that Babel ceases to work entirely when runner over a WiFi network. The issue has been described in draft-ietf-babel-mac-relaxed, which is currently pending RFC publication. That also describes two mitigation mechanisms: Keeping separate PC counters for unicast and multicast, and using a reorder window for PC values. This patch implements the former as that is the simplest, and resolves the particular issue seen on WiFi. Thanks to Daniel Gröber for the bugreport. Minor changes from committer. |
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BIRD Internet Routing Daemon
Home page http://bird.network.cz/
Mailing list bird-users@network.cz
(c) 1998--2008 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
(c) 1998--2000 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
(c) 1998--2008 Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz>
(c) 2009--2019 CZ.NIC z.s.p.o.
================================================================================
The BIRD project aims to develop a dynamic IP routing daemon with full support
of all modern routing protocols, easy to use configuration interface and
powerful route filtering language, primarily targeted on (but not limited to)
Linux and other UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General
Public License.
What do we support
==================
o Both IPv4 and IPv6
o Multiple routing tables
o Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv4)
o Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2, RIPng)
o Open Shortest Path First protocol (OSPFv2, OSPFv3)
o Babel Routing Protocol (Babel)
o Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
o IPv6 router advertisements
o Static routes
o Inter-table protocol
o Command-line interface allowing on-line control and inspection of
status of the daemon
o Soft reconfiguration, no need to use complex online commands to
change the configuration, just edit the configuration file and notify
BIRD to re-read it and it will smoothly switch itself to the new
configuration, not disturbing routing protocols unless they are
affected by the configuration changes
o Powerful language for route filtering, see doc/bird.conf.example
o Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD ports
How to install BIRD
===================
o From standard distribution package of your OS (recommended)
o From official binary packages for Debian and Red Hat Linux
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/debian/
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/redhat/
o From source code of the latest stable release version
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/
o From current development code in Git repository
https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/
See the file INSTALL for information about installation from source code.
Documentation
=============
Online documentation is available at http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc or as HTML
files in the doc directory, you can install it by `make install-docs' and
rebuild it by `make docs', but you'll need SGMLtools and LaTeX to be installed
on your machine. You can also download a neatly formatted PDF version as
a separate archive (bird-doc-*.tar.gz) from ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/
User support
============
If you want to help us debugging, enhancing and porting BIRD or just lurk
around to see what's going to develop, feel free to subscribe to the BIRD
users mailing list bird-users@network.cz, just send `subscribe' to
bird-request@network.cz. Bug reports, suggestions, feature requests and
code are welcome! We don't use gitlab issues for reporting, sorry.
Subscribe: http://bird.network.cz/mailman/listinfo/bird-users/
Archive: http://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/
Licence
=======
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
History
=======
BIRD development started as a student project at the Faculty of Math
and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision
of RNDr. Libor Forst <forst@cuni.cz>. BIRD has been developed and supported
by CZ.NIC z.s.p.o. http://www.nic.cz/ since 2009.
Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :)
The BIRD Team